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336 kennington road
London
SE11 4LD
Trading as Duckworth Construction .
Telephone:
020 3326 2683
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  • Home Extensions

    We specialise in home extensions; whether you’re looking to do kitchen extensions, or loft extensions

  • Home Renovations

    We offer a full Home renovation service to domestic and commercial properties.

  • Folding Sliding Doors

    Folding sliding doors, glass roofs, glass splash backs, glass shower enclosures and much more.

  • Bathroom Installations

    We are experienced in bathroom installations of all kinds, from a traditional bathroom to a modern wet room. Whatever bathroom you are deciding on we can fit it for you.

  • Loft Conversions London

    Whether you’re looking to add a bedroom, office or a guest bedroom with en suite, building company London can bring your ideas to life.

Plan & Design House Extensions

Planning and designing a house extension comes after a fair amount of discussion about whether to move or not. When you’ve made that decision to stay put, the fun comes of deciding how you are going to improve or enlarge your home. Some opt for a loft conversion, others opt for a house extension – some go for both.

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Before you start planning your house extension, you should think about how you use your home at the moment, and consider what parts of your life could use extra space. Do you need a larger living room, a larger kitchen, or do you need more bedrooms? Maybe it’s not more of the same space you need, maybe you need a playroom or gym or home office following a change of circumstances.

Look at the way your house is built at the moment. And look at the houses in your street – see if there are any extensions in your street or area that might work well on your own home or for your own family.

When you start talking to architects and planners, these are the sort of questions they’re going to need you to answer. Sure, most architects will have some great ideas and will be able to guide you in your planning, but if you spend the time thinking about your requirements and desires before the architect arrives, you’ll be off to a good start, and he (or she!) will be able to help you design a house extension that works really well for you.

Each house extension design is different, and it needs to fit house, area and family-in-residence. But whenever approaching the planning and design of a new house extension, the architect and homeowner need to discuss the size of the existing house as well as the required size of the extension. Similarly, most extensions need to stay in keeping the house’s original structure – or complement it well.

Don’t forget that the role of a house extension doesn’t have to be the ‘new’ section: a new kitchen, a new gym, the home office. Many assume that whatever the current house is missing will be put in the extension. But actually, an extension can change the layout of an entire floor --- of an entire house. Existing rooms can also have new life breathed into them thanks to a house extension.

Something you mustn’t forget is how your extension might impact the world outside: will the neighbours lose the suntrap they enjoy so much? Will you? What about the plants that will have to be moved or destroyed in order to accommodate the extension? Are you happy to lose a large amount of your garden in order to have more space available inside?

So before you even get the tape measure out, there are a lot of things to consider before you get into the planning and designing of your house extension.